Date: Oct 5^th 2024 – Feb 16^th 2025                    Location: Mastio della Cittadella – Turin.

Curator: Marco Witzig.

The exhibition explores, ten years after his passing, the career of the great Swiss master who profoundly changed and influenced surrealism, sci-fi horror, and contemporary gothic imagery. H.R. Giger was one of the most evocative and captivating creators of recent times, whose work exerts an enormous fascination. An artist with a contrasting personality, he developed, over the last four decades, a highly personal body of work with great visual and symbolic impact. Thanks to a distinctive surrealism, his universe is dark, abject yet sumptuous, mechanical and anatomical, capable of inspiring both terror and admiration at the same time.

With his unique style, H.R. Giger became one of the greatest representatives of visionary and fantastic art in the 20th century. Despite his recognition in pop culture, his work has received little approval from institutional circles and is significantly absent from art history books. This major retrospective provides an opportunity to question the place that should be given to an artist whose influence on contemporary culture remains strong and enduring.

The exhibition features 80 works, including paintings, sculptures, drawings, photographs, design objects, and videos, sourced from the Giger Museum in Switzerland and the private collection of Marco Witzig. The exhibition path will allow fans to fully immerse themselves in the artist’s world and admire some of his most iconic pieces in person while also exploring lesser-known aspects of Giger’s work.

The exhibition is divided into four sections, inspired by the most significant themes developed by the master: cinema, music, surrealism, and cosmic horror.

A section dedicated to surrealism explores Giger’s role in redefining the movement in contemporary terms. Finally, the cosmic horror section delves into the literary philosophy developed by writer H.P. Lovecraft, which Giger transformed into a haunting visual universe, crafting unsettling atmospheres that simultaneously seduce and disorient the viewer.

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Date: Sep 28^th 2024 – Jan 12^th 2025                    Location: Museo Storico della Fanteria – Rome.

Curator: Micol Di Veroli, Dominique Lora, Vittoria Mainoldi.

The exhibition chronicles Antonio Ligabue’s artistic journey through 70 works including sculptures, oils, drawings, and dry points, allowing the visitor to get up close and personal with the artist’s most intimate world. The aim is to offer a new reading of his work. In particular, it aims to free the artist from the many labels that have been attached to him over time-whether those of Naïf, Brut or Outsider – in order to analyze his production in the light of the biographical datum, and fully show the unicum that Ligabue represents within the History of Art.

The exhibition follows a chronological path in which different techniques are mixed. Ligabue was indeed an artist in the classical sense of the term, almost Renaissance, and expressed himself through the most different, not favoring one in particular. Particular attention is given in the exhibition to the self-portrait, a tool much used by the artist: for Ligabue, self-portraits are experiments designed to show the evolution of the research and his identity of painter and man. The heart of the exhibition is represented by the works that compose an important and unique private Italian collection exhibited for the first time ever in its entirety. The opportunity to analyze Ligabue’s work through one of the most nourished that preserve his works, allows an unprecedented look at the artist: That of those who first saw in him the spark of genius and the fragility of the individual. Other loans come from various private Italian collections.

Antonio Ligabue’s artistic research embodies a vision in which imagination represents an alternative key to a broader understanding of the human condition, just as his artistic gesture embodies the ability to perceive and understand the present in the construction of an individual and social identity. In other words, if the world’s tendency is towards standardization, the only way to defend character, diversity and tradition within a global system is to turn to art for decipherment new possibilities and new forms of expression and accessibility to our local culture. In the metaphysics of the natural landscape, the great Italian maestro examines human relationships and finds his own artistic solution, through which each of his compositions becomes a form of meditation on the human condition and the mutability/immutability of the world.

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Date: Feb 9^th – Jun 16^th 2024                    Location: Museo Villa Bassi Rathgeb – Abano Terme (PD).

Curator: Dominique Lora.

The faces of great actors and directors from the history of international cinema, such as Federico Fellini, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Anthony Quinn, Marcello Mastroianni, Alberto Sordi, Anna Magnani, Roberto Benigni, Claudia Cardinale, and Maria Callas, but also contemporary icons from the likes of Giuseppe Tornatore, Pedro Almodovar, Antonio Banderas, Carlo Verdone, Claudia Gerini, Natalie Portman and Penelope Cruz are just a few of the protagonists of Mimmo Cattarinich’s stage photographs, to whom the Villa Bassi Rathgeb Museum is dedicating its new exhibition curated by Dominique Lora. 100 stills from the immense Cattarinich Archive in Rome, capable of telling the story of Italian and international cinema from the 1960s to the present day.

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Date: Dec 7^th 2023 – Mar 31^st 2024

Location: The Simon Janashia Museum of Georgia – Tbilisi, Georgia.

For the first time in Georgia, the wonders of the mysterious Etruscan civilization are unveiled in the exhibition “Etruscan World. Treasures from the Museums of Chiusi, Chianciano and Florence.” An exceptional selection of precious artifacts from the National Etruscan Museum of Chiusi, the Museo Civico Archeologico delle Acque of Chianciano Terme and the National Archaeological Museum of Florence, introduces visitors to a fascinating journey into the most advanced and important Italic civilization of pre-Roman Italy and will tell the story of the Etruscan people in its many facets.

From daily life to worship, from customs and traditions to conceptions of the afterlife, from enigmatic writing to vivid male and female faces.

The exhibition aims to reveal to the Georgian public the secrets of the Etruscan world through the famous Chiusi canopic jars (anthropomorphic cinerary vessels, typical of the Chiusi area), painted urns and sculptures, bucchero and bronze pottery, as well as ceramics and gold.

Two of the works featured are also related to Colchis, the ancient Georgian land: the clay krater (400-380 B.C.) and the bronze mirror (300-275 B.C.) depicting the myth of the Argonauts.

The exhibition, produced in Georgia by the Italian Embassy in collaboration with the Regional Directorate of Tuscany Museums, which guaranteed the loan, and with the organizational support of Glocal Project Consulting and the Georgian National Museum, will be open from december 7, 2023 until march 31, 2024 at the Simon Janashia Museum of Georgia in Tbilisi, and later on at the Otar Lordkipanidze Archaeological Museum in Vani, where it will remain until august 31, 2024.

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Date: Oct 14^th 2023 – Jan 14^th 2024                    Location: Palazzo Chigi – Ariccia (RM).

Curator: Francesco Petrucci.

A new painting by Caravaggio, the first version of the famous composition “The Taking of Christ,” is being exhibited to the public for the first time after being rediscovered and restored. The work will be on view at Palazzo Chigi in Ariccia from Oct. 14, 2023 to Jan. 7, 2024. This work, originally exhibited in 1951 in Milan, has been carefully restored and studied, confirming its authenticity and attribution to Caravaggio due to its high quality and significant changes revealed by diagnostic investigations. The work, which is of considerable interest to the national cultural heritage, was notified by the Italian state in 2004.
The history of “The Taking of Christ” is full of troubled collecting events, including a long and controversial legal dispute.

The exhibition documents the prestigious provenance of the canvas, which includes the Mattei, Colonna di Stigliano and Ruffo di Calabria collections, up to and including the current owner, and compares two main versions of the composition, that of the Ruffo collection and that of the Jesuit Company of Dublin. “The Taking of Christ” is one of the most intense and dramatic works of Caravaggio’s Roman period, parallel to the canvases in the Contarelli and Cerasi chapels, marking a turning point in his artistic production.

The exhibition reconstructs Caravaggio’s atelier in Palazzo Chigi, with lighting that reflects historical conditions, and includes informative and educational panels explaining the copies and the history of the composition. Related works by other Renaissance artists are also featured. The exhibition is organized by Glocal Project Consulting, known for promoting art events internationally, and enjoys the support of the Meeting del Mare Foundation – C.R.E.A., the BCC Foundation of the Castelli Romani and Tuscolo, and the cultural association “Comitato di San Floriano” of Illegio.

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Date: Apr 8^th 2022 – Aug 29^th 2022

Location: Palazzo Madama – Museo Civico d’Arte Antica di Torino.

Palazzo Madama – Museo Civico d’Arte Antica in Turin, from April 8 to August 29, 2022 presents the exhibition Invitation to Pompeii, curated by the Parco Archeologico of Pompeii and by Palazzo Madama.

An “invitation” to enter into the homes of Pompeii, to discover their atmospheres, their furnishings, the objects used daily by their inhabitants, their decorations and embellishments, through a journey into the Pompeiian world.

The exhibition itinerary, in the majestic Sala del Senato, where Italy was founded, unfolds across the environments that best represent the most lavish dwellings in Pompeii from the first century AD. The Roman domus, for the first time in Turin, opens its doors wide to visitors, welcoming them into the domestic intimacy and displaying ordinary daily life on the slopes of the Vesuvius. A plunge into the past, which offers the opportunity to experience those environments where the eruption of the Vesuvius in 79 AD suddenly extinguished the life of its inhabitants. Today’s Pompeii is nothing but a mere memory of the ancient city, stripped of all forms of life caused by the natural disaster and emptied of those objects that could allow us to imagine it as it once was.

A rich selection of over 120 works, including furniture, statues, jewelry, works in bronze and glass, and decorative accessories, is presented to visitors in an itinerary across domestic spaces (atrium, triclinium, peristyle with garden, bedrooms), which ends with the dramatic plaster casts of some victims.

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Date: Apr 30^th 2021 – Aug 29^th 2021

Location: Seoul, Korea.

The photos of the Beatles, which remain in black and white and in color, contain the breath, sweat, and numerous emotions of the four members. More than 60 years later, not only on the colorful stage but also on the playful side of relaxing, but it is still vivid. And behind all these pictures is Robert Whitaker.

Robert Whitaker is called a surrealist photographer who visualizes the image he saw in his dreams as a photograph. Just as Spanish painter Salvador Dali carried his night-long dream to the canvas, Robert Whitaker reinterpreted his dream and used various props and techniques to move it onto the film – he said Salvador Dali was actually the source of his inspiration.

For this reason, his photographs, which creatively reinterpreted the images of the Beatles as well as the top stars of the time in the 1960s during the Cultural Revolution, are very valuable not only commercially but also artistically. In recognition of this value, his work was displayed at The National Gallery in the UK, and he was nicknamed “Super Click Super Click,” which means “the best photographer.”

From 1964 to 1966, Robert Whitaker served as the Beatles’ exclusive photographer for about two years. At the time when the Beatles were enjoying their best days, they recorded history by sharing every move with them. He applied his surrealistic photographic philosophy to Beatles photography, and left experimental and original photographs using the camera as a pictorial tool. “I tried to show that they were just like us, made up of blood and flesh.” Robert Whitaker’s passion for expressing the true image of the four members hidden behind glamour in his own way, still shines at this moment.

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Date: Jul 17^th 2021 – Sep 12^th 2021        Location: Vani Archeological Museum – Vani, Georgia.

Date: Sep 23^rd 2021 – Nov 7^th 2021       Location: The Simon Janashia Museum of Georgia – Tbilisi, Georgia.

Date: Nov 19^th 2021 – Jan 30^th 2022     Location: National Gallery of Armenia – Yerevan, Armenia.

Pompeii, although struck by a terrible natural catastrophe, which suddenly shut down the life of the city, has seen its urban and architectural structure remain largely intact and, more unique than rare, is therefore able to offer visitors the extraordinary thrill of retracing its streets and visiting its houses, experiencing the unrepeatable sensation of living in a time different from the present.

But with a very specific limit, which is the reason for this exhibition: that today’s Pompeii is nothing but the skeleton of the ancient city, drained of all forms of life by the tremendous eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD. and emptied of those objects that would allow you to imagine it as it was. Furniture, tools, ornaments, architectural decorations that, starting with the frescoes, embellished the walls of the houses.

The usefulness, as well as the charm, of this exhibition lies precisely in the theme of living and therefore of the daily life that took place in Pompeii and its territory, in the different social levels, and therefore in the opportunity for the visitor to see finds. coming from various rooms of the house (the atrium, the triclinium, the peristyle, the lararium, the garden). In addition to this, precious jewels and casts of some victims of the eruption complete the exhibition. It is an immersion in the daily life of an ancient Italian city in the first century. A.D.

The exhibition in the Vani Museum is significant, the archaeological site located in the region known in the classical world as Colchis and destroyed by military attack in the mid-first century. B.C.

Two sites compared so different but so similar due to the violent interruption of life, albeit for very different reasons.

Making of  “LIFE AND DEATH: Glory of Pompeii”

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Date: Jul 11^th 2020 – Oct 25^th 2020

Location: Regional Archaeological Museum – Aosta, Italy.

Curator: Thomas Andratschke.

The exhibition aims to tell the story of the evolution of German Impressionism through a prestigious selection of paintings, graphic works and sculptures, coming from the Landesmuseum in Hanover and for the most part never exhibited outside Germany.

The exhibition of the masterpieces of Liebermann, Slevogt and Corinth represents a unique opportunity for investigation, study and enhancement of important artists, little known to the Italian public but of great interest, taking into account the fact that the German Impressionists have often portrayed nature and Italian landscapes.

Starting from the relationship with French Impressionism, the exhibition is developed in chronological order on three thematic areas: the first section welcomes the pioneers of German landscape painting until 1890, the second offers the masterpieces of the three most famous German Impressionists, Max Liebermann, Max Slevogt and Lovis Corinth, while the third section presents their successors, the other exponents of German Impressionism active until 1930.

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Curator: Dominique Lora and Micol di Veroli. In collaboration with the Institute of Demoethnoanthropology of Rome.

In 2001 UNESCO established a program to protect the oral and intangible heritage of humanity, aimed at evaluating and cataloging the intangible assets of the world, that had to be considered as real monuments and which, without such measures, could be at risk of being dispersed in the maze of modernity and to disappear permanently.

The varied list of this heritage includes oral traditions, popular rites, popular festivities, arts and crafts, and in general social practices and ancient knowledge about nature and the universe. Keeping these practices alive is of crucial importance as they characterize and redefine the time, space, and memory of people and places.

The exhibition presents a multidisciplinary dialogue between the works of contemporary art by 16 great Italian artists, together with photographic documents, video documentaries by the director Francesco de Melis, objects and artifacts from the collections and archives of the museum of popular arts and traditions in Rome.

Artists:

Bertozzi&Casoni, Tommaso Cascella, Flavio Favelli, Dario Ghibaudo, Silvia Giambrone, Maria Lai, Francesco Lauretta, Gaia Scaramella, Davide Monaldi, Luana Perilli, Roxy in the Box, Marinella Senatore, Giuseppe Stampone, Sergio Tumminello, Angelo Marinelli and Zaelia Bishop.

Making Of  “The (In) Visible Stories”

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